Over 3 years I'd imagine a greater density of wifi devices all sharing the same spectrum to have appeared. Perhaps the signal level is the same, but the noise floor has increased substantially, degrading performance.
"And you can take all of that experience and training out into the real world--but you *can't* take the hardware out there--it doesn't scale, and it isn't compliant--and for any organization of real scale, "cheap" hardware is more expensive because of the human time it takes to upkeep it."
- Unless you are google, you mean...they seem to do it. They are a special case though, having built all their management processes around lowest common denominator hardware.
That was Armor Attack. There was a bug in it, where you could drive your jeep into one of the corners so that the chopper couldn't hit you...you could just sit there watching it spiral around you. Awesome game!
I'd be interested in the answer to this as well. I tried Ubuntu on an older Dell Latitude running at 233mhz, and although it was well supported, it was pretty slow (although everything on it seems slow, I guess)
I don't know if they were IDE or not, but I remember always hearing the persistent rumor that Hard Cards were so reliable (and they were!), because they used only half the drive capacity, and remapped bad sectors. So maybe it wasn't IDE, but if the rumours were true, they were on the right track (bad pun, sorry)
And I love it. I print rather than write with it, and I find the accuracy is great. I also have Grafitti installed on it, but I hardly ever use it.
I've used Palms and PocketPC's, but go back to the Newton for it's simple and elegant interface, which makes we actually want to use it, and keep my calendar and contacts up to date.
Although the HWR gets all the attention whenever someone writes about the Newton, the one aspect I would have loved to see advanced and developed was the Assist button. Tap on it, enter something like "Have lunch with Bob on Tuesday", and it will search your contact list, automatically create a meeting on Tuesday for you.
Our entire electric light rail C-Train mass transportation system is powered by wind generation. Obviously, it's probably small potatoes on a global scale, but it does go to show that wind generated electricity is viable in regions that have steady wind patterns (ours is generated south of Calgary, in Pincher Creek). My understanding is that most of Pincher Creek is also powered by wind generated electricity. I honestly can't see how the climate could possibly be affected - the region is dry and extemely windy. Keep in mind that the towers are not very tall. I highly doubt they affect anything other than surface winds.
For those that are saying that they are noisy (they aren't, unless you're up close to them) or unsightly, I'd encourage you to check out a field of wind turbines, if you have one nearby. I'm not sure about the bird kill issue here in Alberta, I'd have to research that, but I've never seen a dead bird near any of the turbines any time I've visited them. They are clean, quiet, amazing structures. Pure geek awe, really...
Except that for recovery situations, there are better tools available both shipped with XP, and via third party. Using the right tool for the job always applies, particularly in emergency situations.
No kidding, that's the first thing I thought of... I can't imagine this hack provides any of the security functionality at all, and that should send shivers down any Linux user's spine.
Why wuold you install Linux, and then go ahead and mount what will essentially end up being a world-writeable volume? Other than for emergency or migration purposes, this makes no sense to me at all.
Nope, it doesn't work that way. iTunes must check your IP address, or something, because it tells you right off the bat that you can only browse the iTunes store, if you install and run it in Canada.
Come on Apple, hurry up and hook the great white north up, already!
This isn't hard to deal with at all. Using a system like CTC (Centralized Traffic Control, here in Canada) involves placing a low voltage across the tracks. The metal wheels and axle of the trains create a shunt, and you can detect where the train is on the track. When you combine that info with the GPS info, you can tell very precisely where a train is, and what track it is on.
There are other methods as well, including hotbox detectors (systems that measure the temperature of the axle bearings as the train rolls by), and even systems that can read over sized barcodes off the sides of cars as they roll past.
In short, there is no lack of ways to tell which track a train is on. The only problem for India might be affording them - systems like CTC are pretty expensive to implement.
That's really the million dollar question. PocketPC 2002 is not, and it's a real shame, because it hurts the performance of those 400mhz Xscale CPU's pretty badly.
Wow, someone else who thinks Project Space Station deserves a re-make! I'd love to see something more modern (minus whatever twitch factor they'd inevitably try to add to it)
"Btw, having a good GPS system is vital for fighter planes. When you come out of a steep curling dive, and are doing hundreds of km/h, just a few hundred meters above the ground, you want to know your gps position as quickly as possible. This is where the QoS stuff comes in. Even a delay of a couple of seconds can be fatal if you doing 200km/h at the wrong height:)"
Would you care to explain that? It makes no sense to me at all. Why would GPS matter at all, in that situation? GPS is horribly inaccurate at calculating elevation, especially compared to barometric or radio altimeters. Never mind the fact that your absolute elevation isn't important - it's your relative elevation about the ground that will prevent you from smacking into it, and that's something that GPS will never be able to tell you...
Over the shoulder snooping is certainly one way. A greater concern is an app that takes a screen capture of your desktop or the contents of certain windows, and sends it off to another machine.
I wonder how MS will handle cutting and pasting information between secure and insecure windows? Or even between secure windows, for that matter?
He's not a troll, he's correct in his critique of your idea. If you really think that caching DNS entries for extremely long periods of time is a worthwhile idea, why not just memorize the IP addresses of the sites, or even worse, maintain a hosts file on your box..after all, those expiration dates are arbitrary, right? You know far better than the owner of the DNS entry how frequently it changes, right?
Check out eComStation (www.ecomstation.com), which is a beefed up OS/2 distribution. You get lots of neat goodies like SMP support, new filesystems, better driver support, X-Windows, and all sorts of other stuff.
Yes, I realize it's a totally new design, but you'd think that the chips would be getting more power efficient as the technology advances. The thing is maybe 2-3 times faster than the previous GeForce models, but it needs a lot more power, as evidenced by the blower and off-board power connector. Other boards, like the Kyro based ones, seemed to get impressive performance for the power they consumed by using new or different techniques for rendering pixels.
So how many watts is this GPU drawing, to require an active cooling system that major? It seems that the latest GPU's from both major manufacturers are favoring a brute force approach to performance, rather than improving their architecture. I wonder what implications this will have for power supplies in your average PC - are we getting to the point that a fast P4 or Athlon system is going to require a 600 watt or more power supply to be adequately stable?
I also would love to hear how loud this video card is..blowers are generally pretty noisy.
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Over 3 years I'd imagine a greater density of wifi devices all sharing the same spectrum to have appeared. Perhaps the signal level is the same, but the noise floor has increased substantially, degrading performance.
Here was another good bug - try putting more than 32K of text into an icon's title, and watch the desktop endlessly crash and attempt to restart.
"And you can take all of that experience and training out into the real world--but you *can't* take the hardware out there--it doesn't scale, and it isn't compliant--and for any organization of real scale, "cheap" hardware is more expensive because of the human time it takes to upkeep it."
- Unless you are google, you mean...they seem to do it. They are a special case though, having built all their management processes around lowest common denominator hardware.
That was Armor Attack. There was a bug in it, where you could drive your jeep into one of the corners so that the chopper couldn't hit you...you could just sit there watching it spiral around you. Awesome game!
I'd be interested in the answer to this as well. I tried Ubuntu on an older Dell Latitude running at 233mhz, and although it was well supported, it was pretty slow (although everything on it seems slow, I guess)
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What is it about diesels that makes them run so much longer between overhauls? Is it the lower combustion temperatures?
-Scott
Call me when you get to a bliion writes on a single sector...seriously
I don't know if they were IDE or not, but I remember always hearing the persistent rumor that Hard Cards were so reliable (and they were!), because they used only half the drive capacity, and remapped bad sectors. So maybe it wasn't IDE, but if the rumours were true, they were on the right track (bad pun, sorry)
And I love it. I print rather than write with it, and I find the accuracy is great. I also have Grafitti installed on it, but I hardly ever use it.
I've used Palms and PocketPC's, but go back to the Newton for it's simple and elegant interface, which makes we actually want to use it, and keep my calendar and contacts up to date.
Although the HWR gets all the attention whenever someone writes about the Newton, the one aspect I would have loved to see advanced and developed was the Assist button. Tap on it, enter something like "Have lunch with Bob on Tuesday", and it will search your contact list, automatically create a meeting on Tuesday for you.
My tinfoil hat is taking a real beating from all these cosmic rays!
Our entire electric light rail C-Train mass transportation system is powered by wind generation. Obviously, it's probably small potatoes on a global scale, but it does go to show that wind generated electricity is viable in regions that have steady wind patterns (ours is generated south of Calgary, in Pincher Creek). My understanding is that most of Pincher Creek is also powered by wind generated electricity. I honestly can't see how the climate could possibly be affected - the region is dry and extemely windy. Keep in mind that the towers are not very tall. I highly doubt they affect anything other than surface winds.
For those that are saying that they are noisy (they aren't, unless you're up close to them) or unsightly, I'd encourage you to check out a field of wind turbines, if you have one nearby. I'm not sure about the bird kill issue here in Alberta, I'd have to research that, but I've never seen a dead bird near any of the turbines any time I've visited them. They are clean, quiet, amazing structures. Pure geek awe, really...
Except that for recovery situations, there are better tools available both shipped with XP, and via third party. Using the right tool for the job always applies, particularly in emergency situations.
No kidding, that's the first thing I thought of... I can't imagine this hack provides any of the security functionality at all, and that should send shivers down any Linux user's spine.
Why wuold you install Linux, and then go ahead and mount what will essentially end up being a world-writeable volume? Other than for emergency or migration purposes, this makes no sense to me at all.
Nope, it doesn't work that way. iTunes must check your IP address, or something, because it tells you right off the bat that you can only browse the iTunes store, if you install and run it in Canada.
Come on Apple, hurry up and hook the great white north up, already!
This isn't hard to deal with at all. Using a system like CTC (Centralized Traffic Control, here in Canada) involves placing a low voltage across the tracks. The metal wheels and axle of the trains create a shunt, and you can detect where the train is on the track. When you combine that info with the GPS info, you can tell very precisely where a train is, and what track it is on.
There are other methods as well, including hotbox detectors (systems that measure the temperature of the axle bearings as the train rolls by), and even systems that can read over sized barcodes off the sides of cars as they roll past.
In short, there is no lack of ways to tell which track a train is on. The only problem for India might be affording them - systems like CTC are pretty expensive to implement.
Is PocketPC 2k3 Xscale optimized?
That's really the million dollar question. PocketPC 2002 is not, and it's a real shame, because it hurts the performance of those 400mhz Xscale CPU's pretty badly.
Wow, someone else who thinks Project Space Station deserves a re-make! I'd love to see something more modern (minus whatever twitch factor they'd inevitably try to add to it)
Does it run well under Bochs?
Go back to NetBIOS...everyone loves broadcast traffic, right??
"Btw, having a good GPS system is vital for fighter planes. When you come out of a steep curling dive, and are doing hundreds of km/h, just a few hundred meters above the ground, you want to know your gps position as quickly as possible. This is where the QoS stuff comes in. :)"
Even a delay of a couple of seconds can be fatal if you doing 200km/h at the wrong height
Would you care to explain that? It makes no sense to me at all. Why would GPS matter at all, in that situation? GPS is horribly inaccurate at calculating elevation, especially compared to barometric or radio altimeters. Never mind the fact that your absolute elevation isn't important - it's your relative elevation about the ground that will prevent you from smacking into it, and that's something that GPS will never be able to tell you...
Actually, there are RAID memory systems out there. One of HP's high end Intel servers has it. Hot swappable RAM as well...very neat stuff
Over the shoulder snooping is certainly one way. A greater concern is an app that takes a screen capture of your desktop or the contents of certain windows, and sends it off to another machine.
I wonder how MS will handle cutting and pasting information between secure and insecure windows? Or even between secure windows, for that matter?
He's not a troll, he's correct in his critique of your idea. If you really think that caching DNS entries for extremely long periods of time is a worthwhile idea, why not just memorize the IP addresses of the sites, or even worse, maintain a hosts file on your box..after all, those expiration dates are arbitrary, right? You know far better than the owner of the DNS entry how frequently it changes, right?
Check out eComStation (www.ecomstation.com), which is a beefed up OS/2 distribution. You get lots of neat goodies like SMP support, new filesystems, better driver support, X-Windows, and all sorts of other stuff.
Yes, I realize it's a totally new design, but you'd think that the chips would be getting more power efficient as the technology advances. The thing is maybe 2-3 times faster than the previous GeForce models, but it needs a lot more power, as evidenced by the blower and off-board power connector. Other boards, like the Kyro based ones, seemed to get impressive performance for the power they consumed by using new or different techniques for rendering pixels.
So how many watts is this GPU drawing, to require an active cooling system that major? It seems that the latest GPU's from both major manufacturers are favoring a brute force approach to performance, rather than improving their architecture. I wonder what implications this will have for power supplies in your average PC - are we getting to the point that a fast P4 or Athlon system is going to require a 600 watt or more power supply to be adequately stable?
I also would love to hear how loud this video card is..blowers are generally pretty noisy.